NADEZHDA BOM-GRIGORIEVA (1884–1974) Landscape with Pan and Peacock

signed in Cyrillic ‘N. Bom-Grigorieva’ (lower right) watercolour on paper 39.5 × 58 cm executed circa 1920s Born into a noble family, Bom-Grigorieva studied in private studios in Moscow with Vasily Polenov, Vladimir Rossinsky and Emilia Fallis, and in the 1920s continued her studies at VKhUTEMAS under Pyotr Konchalovsky. She also studied etching from 1924 under Matvei Dobrov. From 1916 she regularly participated in exhibition and was associated with a number of artistic groups including Sovremennaya zhivopis, the Moscow Salon, the Peredvizhniki exhibitions, the Moscow Society of Artists, the Association of Graphic Artists, the group 22 Artists, the Ilya Repin Society of Artists and AHRR. Bom-Grigorieva was married to the painter Nikolai Mikhailovich Grigoriev.